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This note documents a curious finding about the substantial forecast ability of a simple aggregator of three commodity futures prices for U.S. core inflation. The proposed aggregator reduces the out-of-sample root mean squared error for 12-month-ahead inflation forecasts of the benchmark AR(1)...
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This note documents a curious finding about the substantial forecast ability of a simple aggregator of three commodity futures prices for U.S. core inflation. The proposed aggregator reduces the out-of-sample root mean squared error for 12-month-ahead inflation forecasts of the benchmark AR(1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970034
This paper presents a forecasting exercise that assesses the predictive potential of a daily price index based on …
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A forecasting exercise is presented to assess the predictive potential of a daily price index based on online prices …
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information. Finally, when forecasting the headline CPI, our UIG for China outperforms traditional core measures over different …
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Monetary policymakers and long-term investors would benefit greatly from a measure of underlying inflation that uses all relevant information, is available in real time, and forecasts inflation better than traditional underlying inflation measures such as core inflation measures. This paper...
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This paper develops an approach for forecasting in Thailand core inflation. The key innovation is to anchor the … combining a short-term model, which attempts to distill the forecasting power of a variety of monthly indicators purely on …-run structural determinants. The result is a promising model for forecasting Thai core inflation over horizons up to 10, 24, and 55 …
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Forecasting future inflation and nowcasting contemporaneous inflation are difficult. We propose a new and parsimonious …
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This paper explores a range of different forecast methods for Brent oil prices and analyses their performance relative to oil futures and the random walk over the period 1995Q1-2015Q2, including periods of stable, upwardly trending and rapidly dropping oil prices. None of the individual methods...
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This paper explores a range of different forecast methods for Brent oil prices and analyses their performance relative to oil futures and the random walk over the period 1995Q1 - 2015Q2, including periods of stable, upwardly trending and rapidly dropping oil prices. None of the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573261